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Note: THOMAS WAS A SHIP-BUILDER, OR CARPENTER. ON SEPT 2, 1645, THE
TOWN VOTED THAT THOMAS DEMON, SHIP-CARPENTER, SHOULD HAVE A LOT
UPON THE COMMON, BY THE LANDING PLACE (THE PRESENT COVE) TO
BUILD A HOUSE ON AND FOR A WORK YARD; AND LIEUT. BOSIE (JAMES
BOOSEY) AND NATHANIEL DICKINSON WAS APPOINTED TO SET OUT THIS
LOT. - HISTORY OF ANCIENT WETHERSFIELD - STILES
THOMAS DEMING, OF WETHERSFIELD, PERHAPS BROTHER OF FIRST JOHN,
MARRIED JULY 24, 1645, MARY SHEAFFE; WAS OF FARMINGTON AND
REMOVED TO SOUTHHAMPTON, L.I. THENCE TO EASTHAMPTON, WHERE
POSTERITY IS STILL LIVING. SOMETIMES IN THE RECORDS THE NAME IS
DEMON OR DEMENT, AND THE AFFINITY IS EXCEEDINGLY DIFFICULT TO
BE TRACED WITH EXACTNESS. EIGHT OF THIS NAME HAD IN 1828, BEEN
GRADUATED AT NEW ENGLAND COLLEGES. - GENEALOGICAL GUIDE TO THE
EARLY SETTLERS OF AMERICA - WHITTEMORE
Thomas owned land in Farmington before he moved from Connecticut to Long Island.
Thomas Dymont who moved from Connecticut to East Hampton Long Island, and then to Southhampton was among the first settler of that place who was of Puritan ancestry. Though He was one of the first settlers, He was not one of the original group of nine families.
None of the sources I have seen, give the information on Thomas being born in Shalford, Essex, but since I have nothing to refute it, I will accept this place given by Ed Deming in His World Connect WEB site on Thomas Deming. (E. Dimond, Dec. 2001)
The progenitor of the family seems to be one Thomas Dumont, born in Picardy, France in the mid 1500's. He emigrated to England with a large group of Huguenots in the late 1500's. Thomas had at least 2 sons, David and Jonathan. This information was given to me by Robert Culp of Pearl City, Hawaii in 1988. Mr. Culp was then working on a comprehaensive history of the Dymont, Deming, Diman, Dement, Dimond family. According to several sources, as noted above, the name appears in early records as Deming, Demmon, Demond, Dimon, Diamond, Diamont, and Dymont. (Depending on the researcher any one of these is used. Probably it depends on how the researcher's family has chosen to use the name). Edwin Dimond in his volume GENEALOGY OF THE DIMOND OR DIMON FAMILY, published Albany, N.Y., 1891, thinks Deming is a mis-pronunciation of the name.
The first Thomas had two known sons David and Jonathan. No one seems to know what happened to David, though his name occurs in the will of Richard Treat. (father-in-law of one John Deming). Jonathan or John had 3 children ----- Elizabeth m. (1) Nathaniel Foote (2) Gov. William Welles of Conn. Thomas born 1610-1613 (described below) John b. abt 1612, recorded as John s. of John DuMont, the Frenchman, or as John Deming, the settler.
John and Thomas Dymont (Diamont or Deming) first appear in the Wethersfield, Conn. records in 1636-1645. Savage says they were perhaps brothers. This agrees with some family traditions. Thomas Dymont's shipyard in Wethersfield in 1648 is mentioned as the place where one of the first ships of the colony (The TRYALL) was built. (See Memorial History of Hartford County, p. 481). Thomas married Mary Shaeffe in 1645 in Wethersfield. They soon removed to Farmington where their son James was born in 1646. From Farmington Thomas removed to Southhampton, Long Island, and then to East Hampton, where he died in 1682. In his will he used the spelling Dymont, not Deming, as he had perhaps used in Wethersfield. He mentions his wife Mary and children as follows---James, b. 1646; Thomas; Sarah, wife of _______Headley of New Jersey; Abigail; Hannah, wife of ________ Bird or Budd; Elizabeth, wife of ________ Miller; Ruth, wife of _________Dayton; John who died before 1682. (Howell's Early History of Southhampton, L.I., 2d ed.)
Thomas was probably the brother of John Dymont of Wethersfield. They had a Shipyard there which built one of the first ships of the colony. This was the TRYALL (see Memorial History of Hartford County). Thomas and Mary removed to Farmington after their marriage, and thence to Southampton, and later East Hampton. In his will he used the spelling Dymont, not Deming which he may have used in Connecticut.
(Ed Deming in his RootsWeb.Com entry ANCESTORS AND MANY OTHERS COLLECTED BY ED DEMING has an entry for a John Deming, or Demon, born about 1610 or 1616 in England, of Wethersfield who married Honor Treat, daughter of Richard Treat, about 1637 in Wethersfield. There is no birth date for this John Deming, but he could be a brother to Thomas Deming or Dymont who moved to Long Island, and became the progenitor of the Rhode Island Dimans. John Deming had 9 children with Honor Treat, plus one son John b. about 1632 with his first wife, whose name is not known)
The name was spelled many different ways. Originally probably Dumont, then Deming, Dymont, Dimon. Diman, Dimond, Diamond, and Diament as some of the variations..
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